Re: [RFC] SPL & PCRE as always enabled in core

And to be absolutely clear about this: This will happen in HEAD (PHP 6) only. Right? :) --Jani On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 22:19 +0200, Marcus Boerger wrote: > Hello internals, > > let's make ext/pcre and ext/spl first class core components and not allow > to disable them. > > SPL: > + influences a bunch of other stuff, and some extensions even behave > different whether SPL is shared or built-in, this is hard to realize > and understand for our users > + was designed from the beginning to contain stuff that is standard in > the oo world, so non standard stuff should be moved to specialized > extensions like pecl/spl_types > - yet another core component and special case > - most important stuff could be moved to zend - but where to stop > + well nothing in spl belongs into the engine, in the same way that > nothing in ext/standard is in the engine. > + zend engine has different license - i wouldn't allow the change > + there is already too much in the engine, actually we should move > stuff out of there - (oops/ouch, did i say this?) > + spl only utilizes the engine, it does not influence modify anything > there. > + we want to be able to rely on SPL in run-tests.php > > PCRE: > + used in a lot of stuff and influences stuff like SPL > beep, go back to square one > + is anybody not using this one, seriously? > + other regex options suck > + we want to be able to rely on PCRE in run-tests.php > > comments? > > Best regards, > Marcus >